The Kabbalah In Safad In The Sixteenth Century 23 Both ancient Jewish thought and mediaeval Jewish philosophy conducted an all - out war against myth and attempted to eradicate it and clear the world of it . Myth reflects what is basically a pagan conception, since it assumes that the gods are subject to the laws of nature which are beyond them, thus depriving them of the attribute of absolute being . Monotheism, of course, is based on the image of a god who is transcendental to the world, different from it, and absolutely separate from it . He has an absolute sovereign will, and He created the world and conducts it by means of His free will, in which there is neither tincture of compulsion, nor internal or external necessity . Myth, on the other hand, deals with the gods being subject to laws which are above them and which they cannot change . It is thus clear why the classical sources of Jewish thought ‒ Biblical, Talmudic and those of Mediaeval philosophy ‒ spend so much time and ef...
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